Our teeth are not meant to chew meat

Since reading Aldous Huxley's Island, about saying grace with food. I just started to chew slowly when I eat.

Yesterday I was eating my dinner. Slowly chewing and a few thoughts came to my mind:
1. Its not easy to chew the food to small size, straining the jaw
2. How did my stomach juice manage to dissolve them. It would take a long time. Pity them
3. Compared to vege and fish, the meat takes aboutt 4 times to chew. Straining my jaw.
4. Not sure on the intestines but I think our teeth was not meant for chewing.

This morning had nasi lemak. Now just finished chewing d half nasi lemak n full scoop of cockles. Wow, very tiring. And I wonder what I have put my stomach thru. I eat loads of meat n I didn't chew, leaving it to the stomach.

I didn't care for my body. My teeth, jaw n stomach n intestines have to work overtime in order to digest. No wonder all the belching as I have been eating too fast and too much.

For now, I will continue to chew slowly cause alas I am conscious of what I put my body thru. I eat cause I feel pleasurable not because my body craves it.

Father, I am conscious. Yesterday, when I knew it take so long to chew d pork chop, I took only 3 slices. Normally I would have finished all – 8 pieces, without blinking an eye.

After jus chewing d nasi lemak n cockles, I felt tired, what's more, my body. No wonder want to sleep after that.

As at this moment, I am thinking that for next day, only takes half a serving of cockles as this is not meant for my teeth.

Father, suddenly I felt sorrowful, guilty of what I put my body thru. How come I didn't realize at all. I have heard all this before on food - but I resist cause I tot is religious and people trying to be different. And besides I love food and doesn’t want to let go of my passion.

At the moment, I am think I will cut down some meat not because it is religious, not because of my meditation. I do it because my body is not meant to consume loads of meat.
I think the ratio of meat vs others should be 20 percent and not my current 60 percent ratio.

What a laugh! I told my friend last weekend that there is no way I will change my food intake cause I love and enjoy food and my meditation don't require it. Furthermore, I can’t eat, I would be a sad person and she agrees.

Well, I still like food and meat in particular and have no intention to stop. But I will take the responsibility to chew n chew so as to minimize the impact on my body. It is not fair to my body, as it was I who decide to eat meat n hence I need to my part in chewing.

But really, the extended chewing takes the fun out.

Aldous Huxley
Animal lives in an impersonal and universal life of eating, drinking and dying, without knowing its nature.
Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and if ever they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it.
An enlightened person knows it, lives it and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.
Does he rise from death?
That the question that the Buddha always refused to discus. Believing in eternal life never helped anybody to live in eternity. Nor, of course, did disbelieving. So, stop all your pro-ing and con-ing (that's the Buddha's advice) and get on with the job of enlightenment. That means, here and now, the preliminary job of practising all the yogas of increased awareness.
Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.

Soul - tot of my friend in yoga, worried that he be non-competitive in this world and hence cannot be successful in his career. Worried that if he became too spiritual that he be like Krishna having no qualms to kill.
To me, I tot we may not even reach that level, why worry. Besides in my case, I valued personal success more than success in career. I want to be happy.

Meditation
Yesterday meditation, was very good. Towards the final session, it was so good that I cried, cos I was thankful that I have been giving a chance by grace to experience it.

Just checked my 7thunders card and got 7 of clubs - exposed to spiritual knowledge that leads one back to the self by letting go of mental attitudes that are keeping you trapped on lower level of thoughts.

The highest side is mental and spiritual revelation, expanded consciousness.

Soul - amazing and this mornin that is what I tot. I am now conscious. Amen.